Dr. Roseann Marshall Receives Presidential
Medallion for Instructional Excellence

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 5/16/99
(By Lisa Garrett)

PENDLETON --- Dr. Roseann Marshall, who has led Tri-County Technical College's Veterinary Technology department since 1990, was honored with the highest award presented to faculty at the College' 36th commencement May 16.

Dr. Don C. Garrison, president, presented the Presidential Medallion for Instructional Excellence to the Anderson resident. The medallion is presented each year to the instructor who has contributed the most during the academic year to the profession of teaching, to the development of the College and to the students.

"As a teacher, Dr. Marshall is able to motivate students," said Dr. Garrison. "She tries to find the right approach for each student so he or she can learn very difficult material. She gives her all to all of her students and serves as a distinguished role model for each of them. When students leave her class, they believe in themselves and are convinced that they can be a success in veterinary technology.

"Not only has Dr. Marshall been an outstanding teacher and department head, she is a teacher for the future," continued Dr. Garrison. For the past year, she has been developing the Veterinary Technology program for distance learning. By fall, she will have the entire program ready to send via television to any technical college in the state. Dr. Marshall has worked out arrangements for veterinarians to be instructors at the other colleges, and she will be the supervising veterinarian. All of the telecasts will originate at Tri-County. "In distance learning, she is the leader at Tri-County. Veterinary Technology will be the first complete program via distance learning for the state system," said Dr. Garrison.

Dr. Marshall continually promotes the program, the only one of its kind in the state, by serving as a presenter at the semi-annual meeting of the S.C. Veterinarians Association.

She has entered into partnerships with companies and veterinarians. For example, the IAMS Company donates all of the dog and cat food that is used in her department. Instead of buying expensive equipment for the department, she asks companies to visit campus and bring equipment for students to use and observe as demonstration equipment. Also, local veterinarians have donated equipment, such as computers. Many of the supplies that students use come directly from the veterinarians at no cost to the College.

Before coming to Tri-County, Dr. Marshall had been a practicing veterinarian and the administrator of veterinary clinics and hospitals in Florida and Virginia for more than 20 years.

Only three years after coming to Tri-County, she received the South Carolina Technical Education Association's Instructor of the Year Award. Then, the next year, in 1994, she was selected to receive the NISOD Excellence Award in recognition of her outstanding contributions to teaching and learning. Under her leadership, the Veterinary Technology Advisory Board has been named the College's top advisory committee of the year three times.

She is a member of the American Veterinary Medical Association, the American Association of Feline Practitioners and Daughters of the American Revolution. She was honored for being the 375th professional to join the S.C. Association of Veterinarians in 1990.

She has served on the editorial consulting board of Veterinary Practice Staff, which is published by the Veterinary Practice Publishing Company in Santa Barbara, California.

Dr. Marshall received her B.S. in veterinary science and her doctor of veterinary medicine from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois.
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